Dress Code - Rebellion Against Dress Codes

Rebellion Against Dress Codes

Social attitudes to clothing have brought about various rules and social conventions, such as keeping the body covered, and not showing underwear in public. The backlash against these social norms has become a traditional form of rebellion. Over time western societies have gradually adopted more casual dress codes in the workplace, school, and leisure. This has especially been the case since the early 1960s.

Famous quotes containing the words codes, rebellion and/or dress:

“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)

“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”—Rebecca West (18921983)

“An orange on the table,Your dress on the rug,And you in my bed,Sweet present of the present,Cool of night,Warmth of my life.”—Jacques Prévert (19001977)